Modern Toss

don't know if anyones been watching the new tv series on Channel 4? I've been a fan of this since it came out as a comic.. what i love about the show is that really it's a binch of sketches that could really just be clips for youtube and indeed you can watch most of the shows there.. My particular favourite is SWING NEWS... but also watch out for Monsieur Tourette - Master Signwriter and illegal alphabet...

another fave is space argument

and theres more...

Taken from the documentary "young at heart" about a conducter with a choir of people from an elderly housing project in Northampton MA. The documentary shows them tackling modern songs from Cold Play's - Fix You to Sonic Youths "Schizophrenia"

> Read about them here

,,, i dare you not to feel anything!!!

This type of film is very powerful and yet on the web with video taking up more and space we seem to be stuck with humour and slick product porn

The only thing that kind've went close that ive seen recently is the Halo 3 site made by AKQA but as great as it looks the interaction interupted the power of the work and veered it into product porn territory - whereas the ad remains powerful and emotive

Continuing the brass band theme

the high school brass band version of queens "we are the champions" in the wexley post reminded me of this amazing version of damian marleys "welcome to jamrock" ... God bless america - over this side of the pond we simply learn to play "london's burning" on the recorder.

On a serious note there is something quite powerful seeing a mass of musicians performing like this - again i ask myself when will i get something like this into one of my briefs?

It also reminds me of Jeremty Deller's Acid Brass project with a former colliery band - remember seeing them at the barbican years ago

> you can read all about them here

Wexley school for girls

 

 

 

 

 

this has to be one of the funniest, honest, well executed pieces of film i've seen on the web for a long time... the only question is how can i do something similar with a client..


> See it here